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RE: ECHO SRM 140D Weedwacker

The Kioritz engines are lightweight and powerful, and normally good conversions. However, I'm sorry to say that yours is either a 14 or 16cc engine I am fairly sure. I did one of these a couple of years ago. I had done some hop ups to mine, so it had more power than originally, but it really is a small engine for a gasser. It flew ok on a 10 lb. airplane at sea level, but when I moved to an altitude of 4500', it was definitely underpowered. If you aren't too high in altitude, it would probably fly something similar to a Cub ok. Better to go to a larger engine all in all.

Sorry,

Av8tor

If it is not SCARY, it is NO WHERE NEAR powerful enough!!
All R/C planes have expiration dates---> It's just not printed on them anywhere!

RE: ECHO SRM 140D Weedwacker

ORIGINAL: Flypaper 2

SRM 140 D is 13.8 cc Hardly worthwhile, I'm afraid.

Yeah your right, I know this engine, i know a guy who built a motorised scooter with it, has litterally 1/5 the power of a G23ORC zenoah, he ended up replacing it with a zenoah motor. The head design of these earlier Echo's and the porting design yields low performance. Now the SRM140 lives on a motorised skateboard It's a shame, I always thought the SRM140 was a cute little motor

Years ago I had a gas scooter my old man made for me with an Echo SRM 190 (see attached pic) , that engine was 21.2cc and just didn't have much go, it was quite reliable, did 2500km (1600 miles) and cruised nicely along the flat at upto 39km/h, but had very low power and torque and would steadily lose RPM's on inclines, till I had to get off and push. Changing to a stihl slide carb helped but the whole engine design was never designed to be powerful.

You can tell this pic is old, by the wonderful quality of early digital cameras!

RE: ECHO SRM 140D Weedwacker

Hi guys,

Thank you all for the replies. IT is good to know before I start working and spending on it. Since it was gratis no loss has been realized.

I understand that it is not wise to convert it since it wont be powerfull enough.
It seems that I have found another one on internet, before I buy let me have your opinions. It is a homelite F2020. I think it has a 25cc engine. What do you say. Is it powerfull enough (for 12-13 lbs), is it easy and cheap to convert?

RE: ECHO SRM 140D Weedwacker

Hi again,

I broke the engine shaft today, when I was trying to get the flywheel out. I think I need to get some threads done on the remaining of the shaft. And maybe the shaft is very short now, I will not be able to use the flywheel. MAybe I need CH inginition ,but Since it is only 14cc. I think, it is not worth to spend extra money. It was just going fine.............. that happens you know..

RE: ECHO SRM 140D Weedwacker

instead of adding all the weight of ignition parts you might want to do a glow conversion with this engine. will also get you a bit more power than gas and a light weight glow engine carb would make it even more compact.

RE: ECHO SRM 140D Weedwacker

CH ignitions has an adapter for glow plugs and making one yourself is also easy if you can find the 1/4-32 tap

the nice part is that you don't need the massive amounts of oil found in regular glow fuel, 5% oil should be just fine. nitro can also be a very low percentage or maybe even 0%. the engine will use about twice the amount of fuel for a given amount of running time but depending on how cheap you find the methanol and oil you might find it comes out about the same as gas. over here with the high price of gas (taxes[]) and the cheap price of bulk methanol (sold as a lacquer thinner) it costs me the same either way...another solution is to simply dilute your standard glow fuel with methanol